Saudi expansion: The Lebanese Connection (1924-1952)

Hussein 'Uwayni—the first "Saudi national" to govern Lebanon, four decades before Hariri—and through him the Kingdom penetrated Lebanese politics: wealth buys honor, and the regional broker makes prime ministers.

The Political Economy of Militia Control – Brown University

Wars have no sense but functions—Lebanese militias achieved the "supreme capitalist phantasm": profit without capital investment, through ten illegal ports and a mafia predation economy.

عيسى المعلوف

Issa al-Maalouf

From his grandfather's library, which taught him that a book is a treasure, the historian sheds light on Issa Iskandar al-Maalouf, who broke historical traditions, wrote the history of common people and modest families, and established a comprehensive approach to Lebanese history.

تقديم لـ-تاريخ البقاع

Introduction to the History of the Bekaa

A boy before a locked library in Zahle — and a historian who broke Mount Lebanon's monopoly on Lebanese history. History won't be written by sectarian consensus: either unanimity or veto.

Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach

The text calls for a critical approach to the concept of the 'public sphere' in the Middle East, emphasizing that democracy requires popular power beyond theoretical debate to confront authoritarianism and the challenges of colonial history.

AHDR: a critique

300 books translated per year is an unreliable figure—and culture is used to mask neoliberal agendas: unemployment cannot be solved by translation but by productive economies. The Alexandria Charter is a shopping list, not a roadmap.

عبد الرحمن منيف ينادي الطوفان*

Abdel Rahman Munif Calls for the Deluge

In "Land of Darkness," a project of alternative national modernity. From al-Bahi's testament: "The flood comes and everything becomes possible, and impossible is deleted from the dictionary."

في صداقة عبد الرحمن منيف والباهي محمد

On the Friendship of Abdel Rahman Munif and al-Bahi Muhammad

Mut'ab al-Hazzal, ghost hovering over oil fields — has a real-life double: the paramount sheikh of Anizah, arrested by the US army in Iraq. Life invents its own novelistic narrative.

Stereotyping the ‘Syrian’ in Lebanon, Arab Stereotyping

Bashir Gemayel reduced eighteen million Syrians to the singular "the Syrian"—and the entire political class adopted this stereotyping that redirects class resentment toward a neighboring people.

The Lebanese System Revisited

The Lebanese system was "globalized before globalization"—it was not coexistence that produced prosperity but economic expansion, and when it was unevenly distributed, war followed. The alternative: "Security by providing bread for everybody."

Modern Arab Feminism

Arab women's rights are the first concession to fundamentalism—and since 1929, Nazirah Zayn al-Din's question stands: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute for the kingdoms you have lost?"

حال الديمقراطيين العرب: جار الله عمر مثالا

The Condition of Arab Democrats: Jarallah Omar as an Example

He called on religious and secular opposition to work together — then the killer stepped forward and shot him in the chest, believing he was shooting at those goals.

Les transformations des structures tribales depuis l’indépendance du Yémen du Sud

Transformations of Tribal Structures Since South Yemen's Independence

A Marxism that never studied its own social formation: tribal structures in South Yemen did not disappear under "classist" discourse but operated clandestinely until they exploded in January 1986.

Democracy and Arab Nationalism – SOAS

SOAS

Arab nationalism is not the antithesis of democracy—and "defenders of authenticity" import everything Western except what is progressive. The Iraqi people were punished thrice: by war, betrayal, and blockade.

غيرنيكا- بيكاسو : قراءة عربية

Picasso's Guernica: An Arab Reading

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A Lebanese before a Spanish audience draws Guernica near Beirut: a city that came to resemble the canvas.